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Destin Jenkins

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Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds

“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”

by Destin Jenkins, Hannah Appel via Public Books on December 13, 2021
Debt and the Underdevelopment of Black America

How municipal debt contributed to the development of white America and underdevelopment of Black America.

by Destin Jenkins via Just Money on June 15, 2020
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The Fed Could Undo Decades of Damage to Cities. Here’s How.

The bond market has fueled vast inequities between cities and suburbs — especially in smaller locales.

by Destin Jenkins via Made By History on April 27, 2020
Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.

by Destin Jenkins, Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on April 2, 2019
Who Segregated America?

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.

by Destin Jenkins via Public Books on December 21, 2017
The Racial Wealth Gap and the Problem of Historical Narration

The roots of inequality run a lot deeper than is often acknowledged.

by Destin Jenkins via Process: A Blog for American History on June 27, 2017

The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

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A Bank of America branch in San Francisco.

Bond Villains

Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.

by Clark Randall via Boston Review on August 16, 2023

Collage of four images related to urban development. Clockwise from left: photo of Ralph Nader, 1975. [Library of Congress] Aerial view of the Appalachia Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority [Tennessee Valley Authority, public domain] Edward Logue, at a hearing of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1965. [Digital Commonwealth, License CC 4.0] Hunters Point, San Francisco, ca. 1969. [San Francisco Public Library, public domain]

Public Interests

Three books offer views of the shift from public planning to neoliberal privatization, and emphasize the need to reclaim planning in the public interest.

by Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on April 19, 2022

Aerial photograph of San Francisco, 1906.

How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.

by Samuel Zipp via The Nation on January 4, 2022

Public Money without Public Goods

By documenting how public debt produced our present nightmare, Destin Jenkins allows us to dream about using public money to mend the ills of our era.

by David Stein via LPE Project on August 19, 2021

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